I asked. It was a pbb bichir, which I have no idea what it stands for.Looks to be most likely a lap. It may possibly be a pbb, but I'm not sure.
The body patterns are telling me lap, but the headshape is telling me pbb.
Hao
Polypteridae Sizes (lengths)
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Good question, usually they name the bichir after a catch location,
Josh's Fish
might able to answer that.
Bump for a good thread, especially to many newer polypterus keepers. Many amazing pictures of larger sized 30”++ bichirs, with good info on max sizes of both CB and WC bichir species
Polypterus senegalus senegalus reaching 24.5” in length and polypterus senegalus meridionalis reaching 33.6”? When did senegals grow that large?Erpetoichthys calabaricus (45.7 cm / 18")
Polypterus ansorgii (96.5 cm / 38")
Polypterus bichir bichir (91.4 cm / 36")
Polypterus bichir katangae (46 cm / 18.1")
Polypterus bichir lapradei (74 cm / 29.1")
Polypterus congicus (106.7 cm / 42")
Polypterus delhezi (44 cm / 17.3")
Polypterus endlicheri (78.7 cm / 31")
Polypterus mokelembembe (35.6 cm / 14")
Polypterus ornatipinnis (66 cm / 26")
Polypterus palmas buettikoferi (54.6 cm / 21.5")
Polypterus palmas palmas (35.6 cm / 14"?)
Polypterus palmas polli (40.6 cm / 16")
Polypterus retropinnis (40.6 cm / 16")
Polypterus senegalus meridionalis (85.4 cm / 33.6")
Polypterus senegalus senegalus (62.2 cm / 24.5")
Polypterus teugelsi (61 cm / 24")
Polypterus weeksii (57.2 cm / 22.5")
RED = a fish where the reported size (on this thread) is larger then the known size
Special thanks to tokyogasmask and King-eL
P.S. hope the new forum allows one to edit their replies at any time, would save to be able to update this post instead of redoing it
